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Also in today's open source roundup: Amazon will restore encryption to Fire OS, and get an open source Notes app for Linux inspired by the one in OS X.

LeMaker’s “Cello” is a $299, server-oriented single board computer with a quad-core Cortex-A57 AMD A1100 SoC and a 96Boards Enterprise Edition form factor. This first SBC to use 96Boards.org’s “96Boards Enterprise Edition” form-factor will soon arrive with a 64-bit, quad-core, ARM Cortex-A57 AMD Opteron A1100 system-on-chip.

Microsoft, as well as its partners, Canonical and Red Hat, are in earnest with bringing SQL Server to Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

PGConf US, the largest official gathering of the PostgreSQL open source community, will be held this year at the New York Marriott, Brooklyn Bridge, from April 18 - 20.

We do Linux. We do Java. Second surprise in a week from the Windows company. Microsoft is joining the Eclipse Foundation as a Solutions Member, according to an announcement today at the EclipseCon event in Reston, Virginia.…

Google Drive is one of the most popular, fremium cloud storage service from Google. Gdrive is an official client for Google drive and a must have application for Windows. But sadly the most popular service can't be used on Linux via any official client like Gdrive. So I thought to find free alternatives to Google Drive on Linux and I came up with the list of 5 free cloud storage services that provide client for Linux. I know you'll love it.

There is and always shall be order in the universe. All things have order of some form. When we observe the murmuration of birds (flying in a swarm like pattern), we at first see chaos, but then as we observe more closely we note form. Rarely ever do these birds collide in air. It is amazing to watch literally hundreds if not thousands of birds flying in a clump and moving in unison. read more

By itself, Android is a fairly secure platform. But anything (and I do mean anything) connected to a network is no longer one hundred percent secure. This means the onus is on the end user to work with that device intelligently. Otherwise, you run the risk of handing over the keys to numerous kingdoms.

Architect for failure, sure, but know that it will never be easy QCon London At the QCon Developer conference underway in London, William Hill's R&D Engineering Lead Gavin Stevenson told attendees that they should celebrate IT failures.…

Google has published an interactive questionnaire that companies can use to assess the security practices of their suppliers or to review and improve their own security programs. The app contains questions for assessing Web application security, infrastructure security, data center security and privacy.

Today, March 8, 2016, ownCloud Inc. is proud to announce the release and immediate availability of ownCloud 9.0, the next major release of the self-hosting cloud server used by millions of people worldwide.

Microsoft is still killing (free) Linux with software patents whilst at the same time telling the media that it “loves Linux”

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Famous fail0verflow hacking group has announced the release of the missing piece that would allow PS4 owners to boot a Linux kernel-based operating system on their gaming console.

Kdump is a kernel feature which is used to capture crash dumps when the system or kernel crash.

Ubuntu Community Manager Alan Pope teased users on Twitter with a photo of Canonical's Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system running on a Sony Xperia T2 Ultra smartphone.

Mozilla, the open source organization behind Linux-based Firefox OS, has announced new plans for IoT device and software development.

The next version of ownCloud, the personal cloud server, adds enterprise-level scalability and collaboration improvements.

After unveiling last month that its Microsoft Azure cloud hosting service now offers support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Microsoft today announces plans to bring SQL Server to Linux.

You'd be hard pressed to find someone who wouldn't agree that design for open source projects in a broad sense (websites, materials, logos, and so on) couldn't use a bit of... finesse. Or perhaps, just a touch more forethought and a good designer on hand. Bermon Painter and his collegues in the field of design and user experience know this all too well and are trying to change the way designers contribute to and participate in open source projects.